The word for today is… vicarious (adj) – 1. Experienced or felt by empathy with or imaginary participation in the life of another person. 2. Endured or done by one person substituting for another. 3. Committed or entrusted to another, as powers or authority; delegated. 4. (Physiology) Occurring in or performed
From the 1950s on, a decades-long craze for lobotomies swept the medical world. Never mind that the evidence for its efficacy was nebulous at best – doctors convinced themselves that it worked simply because they so desperately wanted to believe that it did. After all, lobotomy offered a quick surgical short-cut
Australia’s taxpayer-funded national broadcaster has a rather dubious record when it comes to spruiking child abusers. In the 70s, it notoriously allowed leftist darling Richard Neville (who openly boasted of shagging underage girls in his memoirs) to give a sympathetic platform to a panel of “paederasts”. Now, it’s
The word for today is… tontine (noun) – 1. An investment plan in which participants buy shares in a common fund and receive an annuity that increases every time a participant dies, with the entire fund going to the final survivor or to those who survive after a specified time. 2.
In news that absolutely no one could see coming, predators are taking advantage of ‘transgender’ policies in order to prey on vulnerable women and children. A Wisconsin high school has closed its gender-neutral bathroom after an 18-year-old student was arrested for fourth-degree sexual assault, child enticement and exposing his genitals
The word for today is… surfeit (verb) – To feed or supply to excess, satiety, or disgust. (noun) – 1. (a) Overindulgence in food or drink. (b) The result of such overindulgence; satiety or disgust. 2. An excessive amount. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : There is an abundance—you could almost say
The word for today is… lily-livered (adj) – Cowardly; timid. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : The basis of the word lily-livered lies in an old belief. Years ago, people thought that health and temperament were the products of a balance or imbalance of four bodily fluids, or humours: blood, phlegm, black
The word for today is… numismatic (adj) – 1. Of or relating to coins or currency. 2. Of or relating to numismatics. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : The first metal coins are believed to have been used as currency by the Lydians, a people of Asia Minor, during the 7th century
One of the key signs of an incipient genocide is a concerted campaign to “un-person” the target. The would-be genociders make a concerted effort to de-humanise their victims. The “Strange Death of Europe” has not yet reached the stage that native Europeans are being denounced as “rats”, “cockroaches” or “snakes”
The word for today is… intercalate (verb) – 1. To insert (a day or month) in a calendar. 2. To insert, interpose, or interpolate. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : Intercalate was formed from the Latin prefix inter-, meaning “between” or “among,” and the Latin verb cal?re, meaning “to proclaim” or
The word for today is… judgment (noun) – 1. (a) The act or process of judging; the formation of an opinion after consideration or deliberation. (b) An opinion or estimate formed after consideration or deliberation, especially a formal or authoritative decision. 2. (a) The mental ability to perceive and distinguish relationships;
Chris Cahill NZ Police Association President Speech Transcript This time next week, all going well, Parliament will have passed the Arms Legislation Bill as the second tranche of firearms reforms designed to make all New Zealanders safer. Together, the reforms will do this by taking the most dangerous of weapons
The word for today is… hirsute (adj) – 1. Covered with hair; hairy. 2. Biology Covered with stiff or coarse hairs. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : Hirsute has nearly the same spelling and exactly the same meaning as its Latin parent, hirsutus. The word isn’t quite one of a kind,
The word for today is… gustatory (adj) – Of or relating to the sense of taste. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : Gustatory is a member of a finite set of words that describe the senses with which we encounter our world, the other members being visual, aural, olfactory, and tactile. Like
The word for today is… gustatory (adj) – Of or relating to the sense of taste. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : Gustatory is a member of a finite set of words that describe the senses with which we encounter our world, the other members being visual, aural, olfactory, and tactile. Like
The word for today is… glom (verb) – 1. To grab or hold onto something. 2. To become attached to something; stick. 3. (a) To focus the attention on or become interested in someone or something. b. To understand or realise. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : It’s a classic case
